muslim/muslin - both need need to ship on out of the whitehouse...Chi-lee is now Chee-lay.
Porto is now Pwerto.
Pack-ih-stan is now Pah-kee-stahn.
Peking is now Bay-zhing
Bombay is now Mumbai
Pseudo-intellectual posturing.
That’s what I was trying to say.
It’s Is-stan-bul not Con-stan-ti-no-ple?
muslim/muslin - both need need to ship on out of the whitehouse...And yet Germany is still Germany, and not Deutschland.
You had me until the last one... "Mumbai" isn't the Hindi pronounciation of "Bombay" -- it's a different name. The local authoriities actually renamed the City, because "Bombay" is a Portuguese term and the local ruling Hindu Nationalist Party wanted to replace the colonial name with a new Hindi name that sounded somewhat similar. So they invented "Mumbai."
Everything else you mentioned -- Peking/Beijing, Porto/Puerto Rico, Pakistan and Chile are all about pronounciation/spelling of agreed upon names.
I learned it “Belgrade,” but the city’s name is “Beograd.”
Why not just call it what the natives call it, rather than making up a new word?
Pseudo-intellectual posturing.
Don't forget Nick-uh-rah-gwa is now Nee-keh-rrrrrahhhh-gwa. I've also noticed some now are saying May-hee-ko for Mex-ih-ko.
As for the "posturing" --- these days it's not just intellectual but has begun to take the form of bowing down. ;-)
corpsman is now corpse man....
Pseudo-intellectual posturing.
Don't forget: New Amsterdam is now New York.
:^)
I have a very Irish last name. I get VERY offended when liberals do not pronounce it with an Irish Brogue (even though I really can’t do it myself).